Big trouble in Littlejohn: The 21 worst columns of 2021 (part 2)
Gas panic in the content mines: Britain’s 21 worst columns of 2021 (part 1)
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Give 'em a Grinch, they'll take a mile: The uncancellable march of the 'cancel culture' grift
Just like twat: Boris Johnson hasn’t changed, hacks have simply stopped pretending he’s remarkable...
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One rogue... err... corporation: Murdoch's money exempts him from justice but Prince Harry's pockets might be deep enough to change that...
Without Allegra to stand on: You're told to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears about the parties...
Priti obvious threats: The Sun helps Patel to warn her future leadership rivals while The Times kicks off Johnson's new 'war' on judges...
Paul Dacre isn't the 'dark lord', he's everyone's arsehole uncle, and Martin Clarke's 'genius'? It's moral bankruptcy
The bitter tears of Johnny von Cunt: Of course The Mail is playing the victim after its legal defeat...
Hot Bacon lolz and lukewarm Rajan apologies: Coke, 'cancel culture' and The Sun's convenient amnesia...
Amol, out of love: Why the BBC's golden goose lost some shine for talking about the media's right royal dirty deals
Get back... and to the left: How long should we wait for the truth?
It’s beginning to look a lot like Shitmas! The Daily Mail's annual Christmas paranoia comes earlier every year.
A well-polished jackboot from a fash...ionable store: Matthew Parris' column on immigration is his latest whispered cruelty
Allison Pearson's poisoned pizza parlour: The British media sheds crocodile tears over the Channel and repeats the goverment's dehumanising lines...
Amol Rajan's Royal Stumble: Why the BBC's 'Princes vs. Press' doc is like reporting on professional wrestling...
Johnson’s in Peppa-land while Starmer goes to Dictionary Corner: How two terrible speeches fooled hacks in equally predictable ways…
Andrew? Marred: The departing BBC presenter long ago gave politicians his cheat codes
You have to break some Greigs: The change in Daily Mail editor was about politics... but it was nothing to do with Westminster
Cross purposes: The press is cynically conspiring with Priti Patel to turn the Liverpool bombing into an attack on all asylum seekers...
Britpop Keith: Keir Starmer thinks he has to get The Sun on side because he's trapped in 1995
A Werther's from Uncle Rupe: You can't be honest about British corruption without talking about Rupert Murdoch
Hog heaven for war pigs: The grim spectacle of newspaper militarism again reveals the hollowness of War Christmas
Sea lions and green room sharks: Critiques, cliques and the rehabilitation of Alastair Campbell...
The Rocket Banana Monarchy: Of course the press doesn't want to discuss Britain's corruption — its proprietors benefit handsomely from it...
Distracted by revolting Cox: Outrage, misdirection and the Mail's grim 'magic'...
The weeping controversialists support group: Giles Coren’s pity podcast and Littlejohn’s victim complex are beyond parody, but let’s try…
Monday Night/Tuesday Warning #23: Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will... a view to a kill.
"Can't I have oranges like everybody else?" Writing studs-up commentary in a world of diving columnists...
The amoral of the story: “But aren’t we all a little bit corrupt?” the right-wing press asks as it moves again to turn scandals into gossip…
The white suit delusion: A childish need for heroes has left most of the British media telling political fairytales...
The hot dog suited hordes: MPs and media alike are pretending they didn’t smash up the place
The golden age of bullshit: The Times editor's delusions and how Britain's media helped politics get grubbier...
Cop (26) a load of this right royal bullshit: The monarchy are parasites telling everyone else to suck less blood...
Foreign-owned propaganda outlet attacks democratic protest: Words are crude weapons for British newspapers
Things will never get meta: Mark Zuckerberg wants to build an artificial world? The British media does that daily...
Lost in the concrete forest: ‘Iron’ Mike’s profitable idiocy, Novara’s UnHerd capitulation, and Owen Patterson’s odious excuses…
Alan Partridge's Scum reboot: Malevolent Madeley and mind-wiped Melanie Phillips show the media's tactical amnesia at work
The revolting door: Kevin Schofield going from gambling flack back to political hack is another sign of the rot...
Scoop derangement syndrome: Journalists often forget they're writing about real people
Thick white sauce: Steve Bannon, Guy Hands and Andrew Neil — three studies in getting away with it
In search of New Goonsberg: Praise for Laura Kuenssberg and preemptive predictions about her successor reveal the myopia of the British political media...
Havin'-a-column Syndrome: Squid Gaming school kids, 'needle spiking' and why British journalism loves a moral panic...
Dead Cheap: The treatment of John Pat Cunningham and Dennis Hutchings shows who British papers consider worth mourning and who they believe deserves justice...
Hack belt, first Dan: Why Dan Hodges genuinely believes he and the Daily Mail do something more than trolling...
The Daily Terrorgraph: British newspapers really want their readers to be afraid…
Toxic avengers: The paper of “Enemies of the People” and “kill vampire Jezza” cannot offer lectures on civility...
Four perspectives on a delusion: GB News, Giles Coren, Janice Turner and John Lewis advert rage in the Exploding Plastic Invective
Living in the Mailocracy: Forget Murdoch, as the war on GPs illustrates, it's Rothermere who really rules Britain
It’s only a Morgan troll, but I hate it: Piers Morgan vs. The Rolling Stones is the laziest culture war story of the year
Conversations With Bell Ends: What links Allison Pearson on Sally Rooney, Sarah Vine’s Superman sneer and Richard Littlejohn writing about maggots?
The Legion of Tactical Amnesiacs: Towards a new unified theory of "Columnist's Brain"...
Shitz’ Spirit: High on propaganda history, columnists are still trying to persuade us that we like to suffer…
Saturday Night/Sunday Warning #22: Keir Starmer in... An Heirloom With A View
Britain’s most booming industry? The consent manufacturers: Patel tricks The Observer, Royals’ “Vanishing Andy” strategy, and why *you’re* to blame for everything…
Through the Looking Arse: Government not nasty enough for Tominey, Oakeshott offers coal for Christmas and Starmer’s speechwriter marks his own homework
The Gove War Did Not Take Place: Why The Daily Telegraph is a bad comic and that Laura Kuenssberg rap battle rumour was believable
Prime Minister Poochie: Britain's press says the audience should always be asking, "Where's Boris Johnson?"
In the Oik's Octagon: Boris Johnson vs. Nick Robinson was briefly a fair fight until the tabloids jumped in...
Introducing... Ladder Kicker: How the right-wing press endlessly expands the Tory Party Cinematic Universe
The swine on the cliff: Boris Johnson is pig-ignorant and Keir Starmer is a hungry hog for Farmer Rupert...
The Prick Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: Columnists say, “Don’t panic!” and “Ignore the corruption…”
Rupert’s c*nt cake: Murdoch at 90 and a gift from The Times for Boris Johnson
The Princess and The Potato: Two columns — one about Kate, the other boosting ‘Boris’ — show how blatant briefing can be…
Starmer, Starmer, Starmer Chameleon: Political hacks stare at Keir Starmer’s conference speech and discover it says what they already thought...
Hate male: Matthew Parris pretends to be baffled by the anger at his ‘charming’ Prince Andrew anecdote…
The Labour Party Conference is decadent and depraved: Political hacks’ bozo journalism says goodbye to reality
Scum on feel the noise: Of course, the media are pretending Rayner's words are worse than Johnson's actions...
Saturday Night/Sunday Warning #21: Graun fishing...
"He's a white supremacist, she's a leftist he wants to see dead. Will they bond over veggie tapas?" The Guardian's new 'Saturday' magazine is almost beyond parody
Andrew Neil’s undetectable blush: The British media’s superpower is an inability to feel embarrassment…
Winter of discount takes: Johnson libels Kermit, Starmer writes an essay and columnists go back to the 70s...
System shock jocks: Why columnists ignore big reasons in favour of niche explanations and pet peeves...
The Moran’s Promise: After The Times tells students it’ll teach them who the bastards are, it shares a rumour that Prince Andrew saved a dog…
Just a hunk, a hunk of churning guff: What The Times' "Elvis: The Spy" story reveals about how British newspapers manufacture stories...
The Three Stigmata of the Eldritch Minister: Why the British media pretends Michael Gove is special...
So long, farewell, we Hadley knew you: The real function of columns vs. what columnists pretend they're doing...
The War of Andrew's Arsehole: Neil vs. GB News vs. Murdoch vs. the numbers of Mr Beast...
Not the end of the Piers show: Rupert Murdoch abides and his new TV channel's insidiousness will draw on The Times as much as The Sun...
"Dorries on a free to DCMS..." Why the British media treats cabinet reshuffles like transfer deadline day for the tedious and talentless...
"Whitty, what's good?" Of course, tediously trivial British political hacks are now obsessed with Nicki Minaj...
GB Losers: The only thing less surprising than Andrew Neil quitting is that Michael Gove is a disgusting human being
The columnists' racket: After one grand slam win, Emma Raducanu is the British media's new weird obsession...
Cyanide Sunday: A run through today's columns reveals the British media at its most deranged
Disturbed Dust: In a crowded field, Brendan O’Neill’s 9/11 20th anniversary take is the most unhinged…
Their whine-est hour: Another week, another tabloid claim that Churchill's been 'cancelled'...
Hell for fake leather: 20 years after 9/11 and David Aaronovitch is still singing the same war songs...
Stig for clues: Solving the mystery of Mr Abell and the upwards fall...
Welcome to Jurassic Snark: Thinking about the 'new' Gawker and taking an axe to UnHerd on hatchet jobs...
Saturday Night/Monday Warning #20: Julie and Toby’s rollercoaster sick
Orifice Hours: Columnists and commentators unite to play an arse symphony in praise of offices and the commute...
A Liddle of what you despise: Rod’s 70s nostalgia reveals (again) The Sunday Times’ grimly reactionary instincts…
Neil before Sod: GB News goes full Fox, Giles Coren can’t apologise and… Boris Johnson in unreliable shit shocker
Piers & Loathing at Ofcom: Chummy papers only reflect Morgan’s judgment on that GMB decision
Doomed Geronimo and dancing Gove: Two stories that show the British media is fundamentally ludicrous...
The nine circles of Lionel: The Spectator spews racist rhetoric again but it’ll still be treated as ‘respectable’
Angry to a deadline: Richard Littlejohn, Giles Coren and the “fuck it, will this do?” school of column writing
Tombs, tantrums, and daddy Churchill: The Times and Telegraph endorse another 'war on woke' to protect their childish dreams...
The animals of Pen Farthing’s hood: 'Confused' columnists, obvious smears and why living dogs beat a dead cat any day...
Two columnists, both alike in indignity: Allison Pearson and Charles Moore on Shakespeare — a culture war comedy of errors...
Goodwin’s Bore: Pretending that the right-wing press isn’t obsessed with the culture war is ludicrous...
The Telegraph’s Taliban: The paranoid style in British newspaper commentary...
Hate Archipelago hypocrites: Columnists condemn ‘decadent’ Love Island from their own poisonous positions…
Remember Foster's Law: A new method for dealing with Giles Coren
"How do you sleep?" How Mail hacks justify hit pieces is a waking nightmare...
Saturday Night/Sunday Warning #19: Cut Price Prince Andrew Commemorative China Sale!
Dispatches from Hate Archipelago: Simon Heffer and Sarah Vine on Larkin and Love Island
The thrilling adventures of Pobert Reston! What Peston's ropey roman-à-clef tells us about modern journalism...
A perpetual clown show: The silly season is just a comforting media myth
Ashes of American flag pins: We are in the ‘golden’ era of hot take history…
A bony finger on the doorbell: Journalism's defence of the 'death knock' is self-serving
A buffet for the war pigs: Afghanistan's suffering leads to a hot take bonanza
In a geostationary orbit above the law: Even now Prince Andrew and the monarchy get media excuses and protection
The killer’s byline: Why the British media gives murderers the notoriety they crave…
Alpaca cheap tricks: Tabloid tears for Geronimo are the latest in the long line of manipulative creature-focused campaigns…
Sarah Vine's Super Suspicious Sounds of the Seventies: Assassinations in Italy were better than a Britain without bin collections...
Saturday Night/Sunday Warning #18: Boris and Maggie's outward bound adventure...
The Zero’s Journey: Why journalists are too convinced of their righteousness (and should immediately stop smelling their own farts)
No sweat! The British media’s collusion with Fergie’s PR rehabilitation is less believable than her ex-husband’s excuses...
Cummings, goings, and Rashford decisions: The Spectator is a cesspit and that's no scoop
Comment cooking with Coren: Paris Hilton has no idea? That’s nothing! Meet British newspaper columnists...
Death Wish for Dickheads: Neil Oliver, Jeremy Clarkson and Digby Jones (feat. Brendan O’Neill)
“We’re going on a troll hunt…” The Sun searches for offensive comments about its beloved 'Boris'
Citation definitely needed: Wikipedia is far from perfect but British newspapers *are* unreliable sources...
Saturday Night/Sunday Warning #17: It was the best of times, it was the Fred Durst of times...
School of hard Knox: For the British press no one is ever truly innocent whatever courts say...
Latin for the judging: In the age of Johnson and Jennifer Arcuri, children *should* learn about how corruption toppled an empire…
The Hurt Shocker: A Times column on pain, some bullshit about Spain, and Farage is at it again — British media is an endurance sport
A depressing Prospect: Alan Rusbridger's 'one last job' is a symbol of a zombie industry
Bullingdon Bail: How the newspapers ignore Boris Johnson’s criminal hypocrisy.
Anatomy of an arsehole: Dan Wootton fronts GB News’ despicable Dad's Army war on the BBC
Hack to basics: Of course Boris Johnson would lock up journalists, he's never been one
Saturday Night/Sunday Warning #16: 2,000 Giles From Home
Inside the snowflake globe: Shake the British media and you'll find a tiny world talking to itself
See Emily Pay: The BBC monsters Maitlis while its news *men* break the rules frequently...
Don't point at Pinnochio's nose: 'Politeness' and palling around in British politics produces piss poor analysis
The Subtweet & Unsackable: Giles Coren’s preposterous privilege means he can drink forever in the last chance saloon...
Clubber Cummings vs. Krusher Kuenssberg: This wasn’t an interview, it was as staged as a WWE title clash
"Idea for new car-based segment — Farage In A Garage...": Nigel presents Twitch for pub racists
Flying Farage Off The Turnbuckle: Once again, British politics is best understood as professional wrestling...
Saturday Night/Sunday Warning #15: "Faking Plans For Nigel..."
Nigel Farage's Mirthless Punchline: GB News expects hours of programming from a man with one cheap act...
The Clown Car Derby: GB News, Guido Fawkes, and Jacob Rees Mogg compete for the Craphound Cup
Kneedom of Speech: As GB News censors itself, Boris Johnson bounces a Buller! buddy onto the sleaze watchdog…
The Naked Emperor in context: Boris Johnson’s cuttings just make his casual bigotry more obvious and egregious…
The Member for Murdoch: Jacob Rees Mogg seeks revenge in the BBC recruitment row
The ‘Great’ British Gaslight Factory: From getting a BBC News job to being an England footballer, telling the truth is becoming a professional liability…
They’re glad it’s not over: Where would the English newspapers be without ‘1966 and all that’, ‘the penalty curse’ and other lazy narratives?
Red Top Dead, No Redemption: 10 years on the News of the World's corpse still stinks
Woke Nil: The same papers who attacked taking the knee are now claiming England's success proves them right
It’s…. The Sun’s (partial) account: How the tabloid’s readers are denied clues in the Wagatha Christie case
An empty England shirt in Downing Street: Gary Neville 1 Newspaper columnists 0
To Make A Mockery: Harper Lee hasn't been cancelled despite the British media's latest pretend panic
Dirty Dom's OnlyFans: Cummings' paywall is enraging hacks because columns are just blogs with fancy bylines
Woke up this morning, bought myself The Sun: The British press stokes the culture war then acts all innocent...
Saturday Night/Sunday Warning #14: 'Freedom from Freedom Day' Day
The Mate of Murdoch shield: Gove gets an easy ride while The Sun hits Angela Rayner with old insinuations
What a Vine time to ask for privacy! Gove and Vine get silence and secrecy because they’re 'made’ in the media
Narcissistic Journalism Disorder: Isabel Oakeshott shows how to make the story all about you...
Behind the Hancock story… total bollocks: Oakeshott says she had it first; Newton claims The Sun’s a softie now
The Henry Kissinger Death Carnival: Why it's not outrageous to wish Rupert Murdoch gone
Di-ing to live in the past: Columnists cannot shake their Princess Diana obsession
The Great Shitscape: 25 years after Piers Morgan's ugly 'Achtung! Surrender' headline, British hacks are still at it
The c-words: Of course British journalists don’t deal in conspiracies, just cosiness, collusion, corruption, cronyism and ‘common sense'...
Saturday Night/Sunday Warning #13: The 'Matt Just Sacked Matt' edition...
Uncandid Camera and Gove Us A Clue: The Hancock affair has now shifted to the stories behind the story
Hancocked: Why the British media's self-satisfied circle jerk over Matt Hancock's affair will leave real questions unanswered...
Unionise the Bullshit Mines: Journalists' explanations of why they're not trusted often ignore the obvious...
In the kingdumb of the blind(ed by hatred): The Telegraph’s Harry and Meghan ‘scoops’ are ever more stupid
The White Privilege Album: The government sings out of tune with a little help from media friends…
Triumph of the Still Bylined: Christina and Clemmie cry cancellation while Leni Riefenstahl gets reassessed
RT this: How GB News follows Russia Today UK's playbook of conspiracies and controversy...
"Please, we're just a smol bean broadcaster...": GB News and Oliver Dowden find common cause in culture war
The stench of dirty Mac: Kelvin MacKenzie is right to say The Sun is done but his explanation is stuck in the 80s
Saturday Night/Sunday Warning #12: Bring me the head of Kelvin MacKenzie
Political hacks as pay pigs: Cummings is right about columnists; they're just delighted he's talking about them...
Watt’s going on? The press that brought you “enemies of the people” is playing dumb about what happened to Nick Watt…
Hearing from Mike Hunt: GB News and its defenders in the press sound like babies over the boycott…
Rotten apples in rotten barrels: Police corruption exposed! Press corruption? Never heard of it...
Welcome to the Errordome: GB News is a clusterfuck but it’s establishment approved and isn’t going away any time soon
Live from the Pratcave: GB News is Britain's least-silenced people saying 'unsayable' things they've said before
The government of trolls: The Sunday Times celebrates the ‘secret’ king of culture war bullshit…
Saturday Night/Sunday Warning #11: 'Worthless Sun' Souvenir Edition
The Sun is literally not worth the paper it's printed on and it's lost in court AGAIN but Rupert Murdoch isn't done yet
'The Rise of the Woke': A scary movie the right-wing press writes daily to distract from the government's true horrors
A dox on all their houses: How the British press — egged on by the grubby Mr Staines — made an innocent student into "a villain"
Queen there, done that: The Oxford picture story and more British media culture war lies
Stuffed with Turkish Delight: How The Atlantic fell for the liar Boris Johnson's White Witch grift
You Lilibet they’re Diana to be weird: She’s days old and already hacks are judging Harry and Meghan’s daughter
Saturday Night/Sunday Warning #10: Gavin Williamson's Museum of Mediocrity
One flew over the fucko's nest: Columnists like Clarkson and Moir continue to mock mental health issues...
The imaginary student: Alan Rusbridger is selling the same free speech myths as every right-wing columnist
University of Strife: The media’s war on graduates is more ‘us vs. them’ antics to help the government
The ‘bad’ bear: The education recovery scandal and how the British media picks its heroes and villains...
Tear Starmer: The Labour leader’s lachrymose performance for Piers Morgan gifts the media an easy target...
Game, set, and twat: Whether it’s Meghan or Naomi Osaka, Piers Morgan’s MailOnline-enabled bullying has a pattern...
Yacht is wrong with them? Hacks hail new ‘royal’ ship and mock mental health treatment to 'own' Prince Harry
More than one rogue shithead: Bashir didn't break the BBC, Symonds doesn't run No.10 and Cummings isn't Machiavelli...
Saturday Night/Sunday Warning #9: The Call Was Cummings From Inside The House
Hancock’s arf hour: On The Times' laughable attempts to diminish and dismiss Dominic Cummings’ claims
Guess who's Cummings for Dinner? The British media is gaslighting us about its friends, foes and ex-girlfriends...
Cummings to the usual conclusions: The British media won’t accept its role in the creation of 'classic' Dom
Disgusting Staines: Guido Fawkes is a sewage pipe and the British media gobbles up its filthy product...
Subterranean Bullshit Blues: How the government will batter the BBC before its big birthday...
Wedding Hells: What we can learn from The Sun's slurpingly servile exclusive on Boris Johnson's wedding...
Saturday Night/Sunday Warning #8: Bashir & Loathing In Fake Pages
The Shit Palace Demands Cleanliness: Murdoch's mafia, Daniel Morgan, and British Media's dangerous hypocrites
The Phoneys War: The British media's worst bastards bash the BBC... and ignore 25 years of their own bullshit
Glasshouses all the way down: As the British press throws rocks over Bashir and Princess Diana, the BBC hands them more
Desert Island Risks: A Tory MP's attempted 'cancelling' of Alexi Sayle is red meat for the columnists...
Keir & Loathing in the Labour Party: A Starmer documentary will only embarrass him more
His Marrster's Voice? Andrew Marr says he's itching to express his views and the right-wing press pounces
Dear newspaper columnists, you’re not Prince Harry’s real dad...
Hack explanations: John Kay's obits show Fleet Street's grubbiness and make the woman he killed a footnote
Saturday Night/Sunday Warning #7: Marvel presents... the House of Murdoch
Exiting the vampires' palace: The tabloids are angry because Harry revealed how it works
Triumph of the Chuckles: Matt Forde exemplifies the worst of the 'comedy' slot on politics shows
Hey! Look over Keir! His mentor was a killer but Tom Newton Dunn wants to talk about Starmer...
The Midweek Media Diet interview: Rob from Podcasting Is Praxis on the 'crab bucket' of British comment journalism...
Through the looking glass: On the BBC and GMB alike, journalists accept Boris Johnson’s alternate reality...
Scoop! The killer excuses journalists make for our profession's crimes are vile...
The Monday Media Diet interview: Jake Yapp on dead gameshows, irritating sports presenters, and... uh... this newsletter
The Sun’s killer obit: Fleet Street’s most hypocritical paper spins its former chief reporter’s ‘legendary’ career
Classless: Stop trying to make ‘Greggs guys’ happen or why the press pretends it didn't undermine Labour
Saturday Night, Sunday Warning #6: Starmer, Starmer, Starmer Chameleon...
Keir and loathing in Las Comment Sections: Columnists are convinced they're right about Starmer... this time!
Can't write a profile without breaking a few Cleggs: Unpicking the New York Times' take on the 'new' Nick
Fairytales for fuckwits: Meghan, a children's book, and the school bully tactics of the British tabloids...
Unhappy Birthday: At 125, The Daily Mail is still British media's most malevolent force
Feline familiar: Giles Coren's cat and the laziness of the long-distance columnist
Dead wrong: A column about assisted dying and... uh... Doctor Who illuminates The Daily Telegraph’s world view
Is Boris Johnson a liar? Yes. And much of the British media is lying to us about that fact...
Saturday Night, Sunday Warning #5: Screaming in the biscuit factory...
The unreadable in pursuit of the unelectable: Allison Pearson’s 'interview' with Lawrence Fox deconstructed...
For whom the Campbell tolls: Alastair Campbell's ongoing media career is an obscenity...
Not quite Sun done: No, Murdoch hasn’t cut Boris Johnson loose — he’s hedging his bets.
Sofa? No good: Carrie Symonds vs. John Lewis is a false distraction from things that should really make you angry...
Bodies of evidence: Boris Johnson’s ‘endgame’? That’s just ludicrous wishful thinking...
Red this one before? How the Mail recycled a McCarthyite witch hunt...
Carrie-ing the can: Hell hath no fury like a Daily Mail Scorned as the soap opera rolls on...
InCummings Fire: The wankerweight title fight between Boris and Dom is on...
Leaks on from the Mekon? Number 10 accuses Dominic Cummings of leaks and client hacks swallow ‘the scoop’
The Borisguard: Why did the BBC bend over backwards to explain away its own Boris Johnson scoop?
Sentenced to death: Pearson and Vine murder language in their latest Queen-bothering Covid columns...
The European Super League? Of course, some British newspaper columnists will love it — they never get relegated either
Monday Media Diet #4: Diyora Shadijanova on TikTok, Metallica and the marvellous MEL Magazine
Hodging the question: Dan Hodges, an imaginary 'red' mole, and the difference between reporting and stenography
'Honest' Boris and Granny Brenda: The British media delivers fan fiction that makes even Jake Paul look convincing...
“If it’s not shagging, who cares?” Why the British media tends to let ‘boring’ corruption slide
Admiral Fail Son: The Spectator sticks up for Prince Andrew while the funeral fiasco begins.
On the contrary: A Times columnist declares the contrarian dead while his colleagues still fly that tattered flag
Over the Greensill: Why the right-wing press will bust a gut to exonerate Cameron
PRINCE PHILandering? Nudge, nudge, wink, wink: Why the tabloid protection racket has revived old insinuations...
Keir Starmer is terrified of the media while Prince Andrew is not nearly scared enough
Bullshit & Vine: Complacency, complaints and why the BBC’s royal coverage wasn’t about serving the public...
Not waving, but crowning: The coverage of Prince Philip's death shows the diseased state of the British media
The meat of the issue: Cutting through the 'gammon' discourse...
“War? Good actually. Empire? Double plus good. Racism? Hmm... let’s talk definitions...”: One day in the British media’s gaslight factory
A culture war chapter on verse: The Times attacks the National Trust by pillorying children's poetry
David Simon vs. Piers Morgan: A study in comparing real success and vanity metrics
Night of the Living Lefties: How Nick Timothy writes chilling culture war fairy tales for Telegraph readers
‘Can you hear me Enoching?’ Goodwin goes full Powell as the press downplays Starmer’s homophobic church trip
Saturday Night / Sunday Warning #4: Cult classics *and* bestsellers...
Reading by gaslight: While critics are dismissed as trolls, columnists delight in the race report...
Presenting... Judge Dreads Upsetting The Right-Wing Press: On Keir Starmer sucking up to The Daily Telegraph
A (Bad) Sign of The Times: Picking apart one newspaper's response to *that* report on racism
“Cops are cool and Britain isn’t racist...” The establishment marks its own work and the newspapers swallow it.
The Pretend of the Affair: Why most of the British media turns a blind eye to Boris Johnson's corruption
Oliver's Smarmy: Feckless flag fan Dowden batters the BBC in the culture war rumpus
Saturday Night / Sunday Warning #3: Have I told you lately...
The ego has rebranded: Piers Morgan — the world's most consistently unsilenced man talks cancel culture again...
Losing the tabloid lottery: The Sun turns its glare on a young woman who won a (mis)fortune
Milk, flags, and pint passports: Chris Morris presents... British media and political discourse
Too soon then too late: The press is working overtime to dismiss calls for a Covid inquiry
The (heavily-edited) thin blue line: News stories about protests parrot the police's words
The CoBURN book: Labour's Nadia Whittome faced tabloid tactics from the 'impartial' BBC
The Monday Media Diet #3: Jon Savage on Solitaire, singles and why dead magazines should probably stay dead
Priti Blatant: The Home Secretary exploits the Bristol protests and Douglas Murray writes her a love letter
A message from John Bullshit: Right-wing columnists are the ones who really hate Britain.
Saturday Night / Sunday Warning #2: Mic Wright’s Just This Beleagured
Frenemies against the people: Rees-Mogg slanders journalists as No.10 hack Slack runs to The Sun
Not so private dicks: The Sun was using private investigators long after Leveson
"The trolling was coming from *inside* the house..." Why the British media is obsessed with online anonymity
Mr Potatohead? Yes! The Police & Crime Bill? No. Where are the British media's 'free speech' defenders now?
Click, click... doom! At least The Daily Telegraph's 'pay for popularity' plan is honest — it's finished with facts
The Monday Media Diet #2: Suchandrika Chakrabarti talks Succession, Spicer, and shunning subscriptions
The Mary Whitehouse Revival: TV programmes and porn are always the problem for a certain kind of columnist
The vigil and the violence: A story symbolised by three women and covered with widespread media ignorance
Saturday Night/Sunday Warning #1: Your weekly subscriber-only insider briefing...
Poisoned ground: The tabloids fuel the toxic culture that ultimately kills women...
Amol Nitrate: Why the BBC is so high on Amol Rajan's client journalism
League of Extraordinary Arrogance: Allegra has no answers while Aaronovitch appoints himself Racism Detector
The ‘worked shoot’ and the walkout: Piers Morgan is a professional wrestler
The emperor's new tabloids: The British media denies the naked truth about bigotry
The Monday Media Diet #1: Tech
Another Royal Rumble: The British media's racist royal commentators are shocked to be called racist
Endless Fox to give: Laurence 4 London Mayor is another empty Telegraph exclusive
A cowardly page, Turner: How one Times column tells you everything about the British media's war on Meghan
Explaining the media with three demons: Mike Graham, Rod Liddle, and Jordan Peterson
"Live from his lower colon, it's the Sunak show!" On the endless emptiness of political journalism
This is a sentence. This is another. Now write a column: Why can't the media fight corruption? Because it won't cut its own deadwood
A tale of two Harrys: On the particular cruelty of the British press
The fields of AthenROY: Roy Greenslade's 'revelations' about his support for the IRA say a lot about British journalism then and now
The Endless Congratulations: How the journalistic elite write about each other
The Sun of all fears: The government has one law for its media pals and another for 'enemies'
Plastic pricks: Mr Potato Head, Piers Morgan and the erection of a culture war story
Lying for fun and profit: Boris Johnson’s advice about journalism was predictably disgusting
Off with this Head! How Piers Morgan turned a good headmaster into a culture war cartoon
Waka! Waka! No one's censoring The Muppets but here's why The Daily Mail says they are...
Public cash and Carrie: Why reporting on the court of King Boris has gone to the dogs
The Cult of the Magic Vagina: Why the British media never really questions the monarchy
Leading Britain's Condescension: James O'Brien boils over and Nicholas Witchell does free PR for Buckingham Palace
“These days you get arrested and thrown in jail if you say you’re Tory...” Why The Telegraph and GB News share the same false victimhood
Hell FM’s new hire: Rush Limbaugh is dead but we still live in a world shaped by his lies
War is peace, ignorance is strength, Gavin Williamson is competent: Why the media is supporting the government's free speech lies
Beaker in the bunker: The paranoid style in British right-wing journalism
Tunnel through bullshit: "Boris’ Burrow" and a triumph of (Christopher) Hope over experience
Young guns? Don't do it: The culture war rages on and it looks like Toby Young might get a field commission
50% sawdust: Giles Coren reveals how the column sausage gets made. Guess what? It's tasteless...
Meghan sent: Seeing The Daily Mail defeated gladdens even my republican heart ❤️
"A casual lunch between friends..." Unpicking the cosy chats that enable the media/government love in
When the Joker pretends to be a party clown: Andrew Neil's 'war on woke' shows GB News plans to fight dirty
That is an outrage! No, not Gary Glitter getting the Covid vaccine but Rupert Murdoch jumping the queue...
Broadcasting the burn book: Emma Barnett and the ugly art of the gotcha interview
Not so Brillo figures: Andrew Neil, the deceptive graphs, and the coming of GB News
You're not a columnist, Jackie Weaver! The British media is the same as *that* Handforth Parish Council Meeting
Baron Bullshit & the Mail to Beeb pipeline: Why Toby Young's whining and BBC News' 'right' views reveal a lot
Forget that the government's crap, give Captain Tom a clap! The media as a mawkish propaganda machine
Without an Allegra to stand on: As the police undermine press freedom on the streets, Stratton joins in from the Number 10...
I cunt believe it: If 'double cunting' king Paul Dacre becomes Ofcom's boss the Free Speech Union will cheer
Greig's sausage-making role: The Daily Mail's editor claims his readers are kind so why is his paper so cruel?
Mr Disgusting speaks: Giles Coren hates his readers and the feeling should be mutual
Priti blatant: Two tweets reveal the UK government's dangerously deranged approach to the media and scrutiny
Wootton you know it: GB News' first 'star' hire is the worst person in UK journalism
Boris Johnson will get away with it. And the media’s goldfish memory will help him.
100,000 ghosts: The British media should be haunted by its pandemic failures and the excuses it has made
Announcing the ARG (The Arsehole Research Group): Think-tanks and 'research' groups are a cheap trick for getting media attention... and it works every time
Abandon all (Christopher) Hope: Why The Daily Telegraph gave up on news and got high on the culture war
Chills-ing Effects: How right-wingers got a New York Times editor fired for two tweets
Of course, the government is cutting Media Studies funding — it doesn't want you to know how the 'magic' tricks are done
Netflix and kill: The right want the BBC's head, no matter how much BBC News traffics their talking points
World War Gen Z: Now columnists are trying to drive a wedge between millennials and those who came next
Not Biden their time: The UK's Trump-friendly media puts the boot in and Joe Biden hasn't even been inaugurated yet
The meaning of £20: A majority middle-class media rarely reflects the reality of poverty
The Spector at the feast: The media's coverage of Phil Spector’s death is the latest example of abusive, murdering men getting an easy ride
The Pro-Fume-NO affairs: Why the ‘scandal’ is dead in British politics and newspapers deserve a lot of the blame
The Daily Mail’s parent trap: Shona Sibary is one of many Mail columnists selling out their own kids for clicks
"IPSO? Facts? No!": Covid 'Sceptic' and Dunning-Kruger effect spokesmodel Toby 'Toadmeister' Young will simply ignore censure and keep on talking shit
Bye-bye, Barclay: Sir David Barclay is dead but the zombie Telegraph shambles on...
The columnists’ thin gruel: How client journalism helped to make the school meals scandal happen
Yes, BuzzFeed helped cook up Baked Alaska and the Capitol Invaders but journalism was f*cked long before that
The Banality of Douglas: The malicious Mr Murray says you don't understand the Holocaust
Are Q Kidd-ing me? The Daily Mail, the model's malcontent brother and a case of selective disgust
James & The Giant Conflict of Interest: The Times commenters have noticed but they'll be ignored
An ex-banker, a Rishi Sunak mentor, and a Tory donor walk into the BBC: Meet the new Chairman — he might be its last
Chickens flee the coup: We need journalism that says when white people are terrorists and calls fascists by their name
The TalkRADIO YouTube ban wasn't censorship, it was Rupert Murdoch's beloved market at work
Allison Pearson is a bully: How the Telegraph columnist terrorised a Twitter critic
Greased: How a confected Culture War story jumped from the Mail On Sunday to Good Morning Britain
Of course, The Times bashes the BBC, it wants 'Aunty' shot in the head.
Yes, I agree with Tim Stanley, The Telegraph does publish a range of views... from right-wing to hard right.
10 New Year's Resolutions that the British media will never adopt...
